619. The difference between life in the body, and after bodily life In the body there is a different life than afterwards. In the body, anyone can do well to enemies and to those whom they hate, for any worldly reason whatever, because they are governed by a variety of motives and loves pertaining to the world. Thus they are able to dissemble and call themselves friends, when yet they are enemies. But this is not true of the other life, since everyone then behaves according to the character they had acquired. One who harbors hatred keeps on hating, until the hatred is wiped away by means of a purging process. Otherwise, if they try to pretend, as they did during bodily life, this is at once recognized, and in fact, out in the open.